Hello Chris
This day. Hptm Friedrich-Wilh. Gehring, (probably flying a Ju 188 A-3 WNr.unk.) was on a Verlegungsflug southwards from airfield Bardufoss in North-Norway to airfield Vaernes in Central-Norway. This very experienced pilot and leader was flying alone in bad weather avoiding the inland route and was flying well off the coastline. However something went wrong and it crashed into fjord Lavang, appx. 40km N of Narvik, county Troms
His crew was:
Ofw. Willi Drabe
Fw, Benno Boksch
Uffz. Walter Peters
Fw. Josef Proske
All probably buried in cemetery Narvik.
Greetings from Norway
Knut
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